Temperance Dews Quotes

“Why?" she asked urgently. "Why me?"

"Because," he murmured, "you draw me. Because you are kind but not soft. Because you cradle a desperate secret to your bosom, like a viper in your arms, and don't let go of it even as it gnaws on your very flesh. I want to pry that viper from your arms. To take that pain within myself and make it mine.”
― Elizabeth Hoyt, Wicked Intentions